Flexible Bodies, British South Asian Dancers in an age of Neo-Liberalism
Flexible Bodies, British South Asian Dancers in an age of Neo-Liberalism.
Anusha Kedhar
Oxford University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Magdalen Gorringe
Catch The Bird Who Won't Fly & Our Animal Kingdom
Catch The Bird Who Won’t Fly
Amina Khayyam Company
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Our Animal Kingdom
Akram Khan Company and Numeridanse
Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Club
21 December 2020
Does the guru-shishya model of dance teaching hold out the best prospect of creating a performer?
'We have found that it is only up to a level that you can teach students as a group. Each one’s experience, imagination and capacity is different.
Portraits in Otherness
Curated by Akram Khan and his producer Farooq Chaudhry, this well-packaged platform for new choreographic voices was presented as an offshoot of Khan’s mainstage performances of ‘Xenos’ at Sadler’s Wells in June 2018.
Heritage – Stone or Water?
Heritage is arguably one of mankind‘s greatest assets. But how should dance heritage inform practice in the twenty-first century? Naseem Khan looks at the interplay between continuity and change.
Akram Khan- On Curating Darbar Festival
Akram Khan talks to Parbati Chaudhury, kathak artist, about curating the dance programme of the Darbar Festival.